Louisville Cooperage Co. v. Collins

Opinión of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

W. B. Collins and wife brought this suit against the Louisville Cooperage Company, Polly Ann Lusk, John Banks and Nat Williams, alleging in their petition that they were the owners and in actual possession of a tract of land in Letcher county, described in the petition, and that the defendants had entered upon the land without right and cut down and removed therefrom a large amount of timber. The defendants by their answer denied that the plaintiffs were the owners or in posses sion of the land from which the timber was cut.. They alleged…